rroberts

Dropped my car off in Bremerhaven on May 31 and was told it would ship on June 7th. Yesterday I got an e-mail with a link to the shipping company's status webpage. It confirms shipping on June 7th and projects arrival in Long Beach, California on June 30th.

wagonsrock

Dropped off my E400 wagon in Sindelfingen May 28. It left Bremerhaven Jun 5 and is scheduled to be unloaded in Baltimore June 19. After the squabbles at G7 summit I'm praying that new import tariffs don't impact delivery date, or cost while its going through US customs and PDC.

wagonsrock

Car cleared customs today (6/21). Dropped off in Sindelfingen May 28; left Bremerhaven Jun 5; unloaded in Baltimore June 19.
This is amazingly fast. Now the wait is for PDC to upload US software etc ... I've read up to two weeks, but nice if faster.

wagonsrock

Car arrived at dealer today (6/30). Drop off in Sindelfingen 5/28. Left Bremerhaven 6/5, arrived Baltimore 6/19. Cleared customs 6/20. Thats 5 weeks door to door! Amazing.

rroberts

Congratulations. Thanks for keeping us informed.

My car is in the "pipeline" just behind yours, coming into port at Long Beach, California today. With the way the weekends fall, the upcoming holiday, and my car needing a windshield repair/replace it looks like I will take possession July 16-18th. :-)

wagonsrock

Sounds like you are close as well. I hope you found ED worth the extra effort. Your thread might be useful to inform future ED buyers about how quickly its possible to get delivery of cars after a free tour in Europe. Also, if you are getting a windshield repair/replacement, it highlights another advantage: "free" insurance. If you had purchased your car on East coast and driven to California, with a damaged wind shield, you would have been out of luck ... With ED, you get the opportunity to drive on the Autobahn, see fantastic sites in the whole of Europe, not limited to Germany, and any damage to your car is fixed for free. How can anyone turn this down?

rroberts

Agreed - fantastic deal. Also, do not forget the manufacture's 5-7% discount in addition to what you can negotiate from the dealer. On my $80k+ AMG C63s that alone more than paid for our European vacation. We are considering doing EDP again in two years on a non-AMG car to replace my lady friend's current Toyota.

rroberts

The info for the Status Tracking app bears some clarification. One gets an email from iffusa.com. This includes a PDF file that is correct and instructions that are not entirely correct.

Web links contain both a visual portion and an operational hidden portion. In the PDF file both are the same and work. In the email the visual portion works (e.g., you can cut and paste it in a browser) but the hidden portion does not work (e.g., if you click it a browser page will open but the connection eventually time out).

Next, IFF's status pages contain a lot of tantalizingly named fields that never get populated. For example, "estimated" ETA data is shown but "actual" arrival data is not. The key to not going nuts with this is to accept the estimated ETA dates as likely and to click the CARGO RELEASE tab for more information (as the PDF shows, for those of us that read all of the instructions). Thus, in my case I have one ETA of 6/30/2018 and another of 7/3/2018, meaning that my ship might still be parked somewhere at sea waiting to enter port. But under Cargo Release I have information as of 7/6/2018 at 11:24 this morning.